Chicken Camp (operant inlärning och klickerträning) - House of Learning i Borlänge

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Chicken Camp

Workshops about Operant Conditioning

Take the opportunity to develop, improve, deepen and broaden your knowledge in Clicker training and Operant Conditioning together with Bob Bailey the most experienced trainer and teacher in Operant Conditioning in the world! Learn the science behind the technology. Learn from the famous "white ladies" - the House of Learning's white chickens! Each student gets two chickens to train.

HIS FAMOUS CHICKEN CAMP WORKSHOPS MAKES YOU BETTER TRAINER!

In 1947 Marian and Keller Breland taught their first "chick¬en workshop" in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, to 12 Ge¬neral Mills Company animal feed salesmen. From that time on, the Brelands, and, later, Bob and Marian Bailey, taught animal trainers their craft all over the world, using chickens as behavioral models. Bob is a pioneer in applying operant conditioning to animal training. He has been using chickens as teaching models for almost 50 years, as far as we know, a world record. Bob Bailey said in 1962, "if you can train a chicken, you can train anything!" Bob Bailey brings to the classroom and to the House of Learning workshop the accumulated knowledge of the Brelands, their company, Animal Behavior Enterprises, and his own experience, sum totalling more than 140 years. Much of the history of the Brelands and Baileys, and their company, and the early history of operant conditioning, is shown in the 45 minute DVD, PATIENT LIKE THE CHIPMUNKS, available from House of Learning.

For those wanting more information and a sample of what a chicken workshop looks like, there is a DVD called TRAINING ANIMAL TRAINERS - OPERANT CONDI¬TIONING, available from House of Learning.
SE THE TRAILER AT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ-JnjBTkBw
BUY THE DVD AND BOOK A PLACE FOR THE CHICKEN CAMP WORKSHOP'S AT:
www.house-of-learning.se

Bob uses lectures, discussions, and animal models to teach the principles of animal behavior. Hands-on exercises using animal models, usually chickens, allow the student to learn by doing.
There are five levels of in-depth WORKSHOPS - DISCRIMINATION, CUING, CRITERIA, CHAINING, TEACHING

Discrimination level workshop: OBJECTIVES: Teaching fundamental principles of applied behavior analysis, mechanical skills (timing), developing observing skills, training philosophy. This workshop is preparation for the Bailey & Bailey Criteria level workshop.
PREREQUISITES: Sufficient physical, mental and emotional capability to stand the rigors of the workshop.
TIME FRAME: The discrimination level Workshop is forty hours over five consecutive days
Criteria-Cueing level workshop: OBJECTIVES: Teach applied behavior analytic procedures; plan simple training tasks; evaluate behavior; establish reinforcement criteria for simple cued and non-cued behaviors.
PREREQUISITE: Completion of the discrimination level workshop.
TIME FRAME: The criteria level workshop is 56 hours over seven consecutive days.
Chaining level workshop: OBJECTIVES: Teach more advanced behavior analytic procedures; plan and implement a training program; develop complex behavioral chains.
PREREQUISITE: Completion of Criteria-Cueing level workshop
TIME FRAME: The chaining level workshop is forty hours over five consecutive days.
Teaching Operant Conditioning: OBJECTIVES: Teach behavior analytic instruction methodology; analyzing student behavior; reinforcing students; plan instructional programs.
PREREQUISITE: Completion of chaining level workshop.
TIME FRAME: The teaching operant conditioning workshop is forty hours over five consecutive days.

Why Chickens?

When someone is called "chicken!", the meaning is clear - such is the uninspiring reputation of this domestic bird. What is not so well known is that a chicken may be simple, and cautious, but, it is not stupid. Chickens, as a groupe, have coped by learning what to do and what not to do. In the classroom we take advantage of that power to learn.
It is the chicken's very simplicity that makes it an ideal model for shaping behavior in the classroom. Most higher animals are complicated by many levels of social, investigatory, or play behaviors. These comlicated behaviors may be triggered by internal or external factors unknown to us. While chickens are social animals,, interactions are relativly infrequent, and highly stereotypic. There are few of the "play" behaviors we tend to associate with higher animals. Thus, the chickens seems dedicated to eating, avoiding being eaten, and making more chickens, with very few diversions. This singlemindedness is a help when shaping behavior. The student can spend more time shaping behavior, and less time waiting for the bird to compleate som extraneous behavior pattern initiated internally or by the enviroment.
The chickens is not only simple, it is FAST. Though the chicken is an omnivore, it has the speed and competitiveness of a predator. It takes a quick and obeservant trainer to time the clicker with the impact of the chicken's beak.
A properly selected chicken is the best training model now available.